Reply To: Regulation of electric power production

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: I’m all for local FF generators, PD. The biggest obstacles I’m anticipating right now are regulatory, transmission equipment prices, and not knowing some of the technical details such as the expected output voltage. Please forgive me for sounding gloomy, I’ve already sited one in my mind’s eye that would work without a transformer for very local consumption- say a few km, perhaps.

I don’t think it’s either/or. Both models and many intermediate possibilities will be explored. Some areas that start out with distributed will set up local generators for economic reasons, and local sites will sometimes tie into the grid. As for utilities skimming all the margin, that would be very hard to pull off. People will see what is going on in neighboring jurisdictions, after all.